European Union Court Addresses Hamster Problems

The European Union's highest court apparently has enough time on its hands to take up the critical issue of how France is treating wild hamsters.

The Court ... ruled Thursday that France had failed to protect the Great Hamster of Alsace, sometimes known as the European hamster, the last wild hamster species in Western Europe. If France does not adjust its agricultural and urbanization policies sufficiently to protect it, the court said, the government will be subject to fines of as much as $24.6 million.

Since hamsters, much like mice and other rodents, are pests that damage crops, French farmers used to kill them. Now, not only can't they kill them, but they have to grow food for them.

France “now must work to raise the population of hamsters up to 1,500,” which would be enough to preserve the species, he said, and the prefecture of Alsace “must stop some urbanization projects and restore” older agreements to grow certain cereals that hamsters eat.

You can't make this stuff up.

EU Terrorist Supporters in Gaza

A group of European terrorist supporters is calling for the prosecution of Israeli officials for so-called war crimes. At first glance this is nothing new, just a bunch of left-wing European nuts who hate Israel and support Hamas. But these people are actually members of the EU parliament.

The high ranking delegation which includes 60 parliament members of 12 European countries

Their spokesman is a member of the British Labour Party. He described their visit to Gaza as

"a message of solidarity with Gaza to end the Israeli siege."

Here in the U.S. we have terrorist rights supporters, who believe that the U.S. constitution applies to foreign terrorists. That's bad enough. But at least here we don't have too many people, at least in prominent positions, who are outspoken supporters of terrorist organizations. There aren't any delegations of U.S. congresspeople visiting Pakistan, hanging out with the Taliban, and calling for prosecution of U.S. "war criminals."

The reason Gaza is under siege is because it is ruled by Hamas, a terrorist group devoted to, among other things, anti-Semitism and the destruction of Israel. Unlike Israel, Hamas deliberately targets civilians, glorifies the death of any Israelis, and does their best to perpetrate acts normally considered war crimes. Yet for some reason, a group of Europeans is in Gaza supporting Hamas, spreading their propaganda, and attacking Israel. Not surprisingly there were no calls for prosecution of Hamas war criminals, or condemnation of Hamas for launching rockets at Israeli cities.